“Paris suffers from state supervision that nothing justifies” | EUROtoday

En This week of commemoration of the city, it’s at all times good to do not forget that Paris is wealthy in its historical past. From the combat of Etienne Marcel to the revolutions of 1789, 1848 and 1871, our metropolis was continually posted on the forefront of its time, to beat common ideas resembling freedom, equality and fraternity.

Over the centuries, the Parisian folks have mobilized for the protection of human rights, in opposition to the monarchical and authoritarian powers which did a lot issue in our nation. It is underneath this superb previous that we collectively posed the stones of the republican constructing which is ours as we speak. But it’s also the bitter reminiscence of this previous which prompted the State to muzzle our metropolis, for worry that it will be once more the theater of fashionable emancipation.

For greater than a century, Paris was certainly administered by the State, earlier than Jacques Chirac was elected mayor in 1977, with out having the talents just like these of the opposite mayors of France. Because if the time of cherries is now not present, the State continues to behave with mistrust of the capital, taking prerogatives that it doesn’t occupy in another neighborhood. This reality is all of the extra paradoxical since it’s typically accepted in French public opinion that the town could be higher piled up and extra autonomous than different municipalities, when it suffers in actuality from state guardianship that nothing justifies.

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